INLAND TELEGRAMS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 146, 23 February 1915, Page 3

INLAND TELEGRAMS

FRUIT SHIPMENTS TO PANAMA EXPOSITION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.') WELLINGTON, This Day. The Union Steampship Con pairshas notified the Agricultural Department that it is unable to provide- eo<"i storage on the Moana, for 'Frisco or March 4th, for fruit which various. Growers' Associations in New. Zealand have arranged to send to the Panama Exposition. Suitable space has, however, been reserved in succeeding steamers for 'Frisco. DROWNING ACCIDENT. GREYMOUTH, This Day. Peter Joseph Laini, a sawnnill hand, aged 20, was accidentally drowned in the Paroa Lagoon, while bathing after work on Saturday. SUICIDE AT DUNEDIN. VERDICT OF TEMPORARY INTSANITY. DUNEDIN, This Ds>.\. At ihc inquest on th-5 death of John Bell Thomson, the deceased's wife said her husband was i£ years of age. He had been in ill-health and had not been sleeping well. On Friday night he slept well until 3 'i.m., whan he seemed restless. Witnesa rose at 7.30, when he semed to be dozing. She left him till 9.45, and when she returned to the bedroom she found him lying partly on the floor with his head off the floor. She did not notice a white handkerchief round his neck. He was unconscious.

Dr. McDonald was quickly on the scene and pronounced life to be extinct. Dr. Fitzgerald, who arrived shortly after, gave evidence that deceased was suffering from nervous depression and insomnia. Dr. McDonald said ha had found a handkerchief round deceased's neck and attached to a bed-post. The pressure on the neck had caused strangulation. Deceased was u J a nervous temperament. The Coroner returned a verdict of death from strangulation while in a temporary state of insanity. MILLERS' CHARGES. A.S.R.S. RESOLUTIONS. OAMARU, This Day. The Oamaru branch of the A.S.R.S. passed the following resolutions:—(l) That the attention of the Government be called to the fact that millers are charging £l6 a ton for flour presumably manufactured from wheat imported by the Government at 6/3 per bushel, and sold to millers at 5/9, the country bearing the loss of 6d per bushel. The meeting considers that now is the time for the Government To fix the price of both wheat and flour, so as to prevent consumers being further exploited. (2) That the Executive of the A. S. R. S. be urged to ask for an advance in pay all round owing to the extraordinary increase In the eost of living.